RE: Proper Names, Definite Descriptions, and Scope

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Dear All,

Andrew,

you clarifications were helpful. some futile points about your reading of my 
last post.

1. im baffled that you did not grasp the point about clarity. let me be 
explicit. removing ambiguities is good because it enhances the clarity of 
the proposed statement

2. i didnt accuse Donnalan of accepting a false dichotomy, and then proceed 
to endorse what I already claim was false. Such a position would be absurd. 
I used Donnalan as an example of a philosophy who had not restricted himself 
to an all or nothing approach. An approach, as I said, I agree with. I 
wrote:
"often people debating this issue set up (what I believe to be) a false 
dichotomy. Donnallian argued that there are descriptive and attributive uses 
of proper names. i agree."

i see how this formulation may have caused misreading.

Koush

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